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Container Linux
Developer
CoreOS team, Red Hat
OS family
Linux (based on Gentoo Linux)
Working state
Discontinued[1]
Source model
Open source
Initial release
October 3, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-10-03)[2]
Latest release
2512.3.0[3] / May 22, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-05-22)
Latest preview
2513.2.0[4](Beta) / May 22, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-05-22) 2514.1.0[5](Alpha) / May 22, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-05-22)
Marketing target
Servers and clusters
Platforms
x86-64[6]
Kernel type
Monolithic (Linux kernel)
License
Apache License 2.0[7][8]
Succeeded by
Fedora CoreOS RHEL CoreOS
Official website
coreos.com[9]
Container Linux (formerly CoreOS Linux) is a discontinued open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and designed for providing infrastructure for clustered deployments. One of its focuses was scalability. As an operating system, Container Linux provided only the minimal functionality required for deploying applications inside software containers, together with built-in mechanisms for service discovery and configuration sharing.[10][11][12][13][14]
Container Linux shares foundations with Gentoo Linux,[15][16] ChromeOS, and ChromiumOS through a common software development kit (SDK). Container Linux adds new functionality and customization to this shared foundation to support server hardware and use cases.[13][17]: 7:02 CoreOS was developed primarily by Alex Polvi, Brandon Philips, and Michael Marineau,[12] with its major features available as a stable release.[18][19][20]
The CoreOS team announced the end-of-life for Container Linux on May 26, 2020,[1] offering Fedora CoreOS,[21] and RHEL CoreOS as its replacement, both based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
^ ab"End-of-life announcement for CoreOS Container Linux". coreos.com. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
^"coreos/manifest: Release v94.0.0 (Container Linux v94.0.0)". github.com. October 3, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
^"CoreOS Container Linux Release Notes # Stable channel". coreos.com. May 22, 2020. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
^"CoreOS Container Linux Release Notes # Beta channel". coreos.com. May 22, 2020. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
^"CoreOS Container Linux Release Notes # Alpha channel". coreos.com. May 22, 2020. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
^Cite error: The named reference theplatform-201502 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"CoreOS Pilot Agreement". coreos.com. March 13, 2014. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
^"coreos/etcd: etcd/LICENSE at master". github.com. July 31, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
^"CoreOS Container Linux 2514.1.0 Documentation". coreos.com. January 21, 2021. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
^"CoreOS Linux is now Container Linux". coreos.com. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
^Libby Clark (September 9, 2013). "Brandon Philips: How the CoreOS Linux Distro Uses Cgroups". Linux.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
^ abCade Metz (August 21, 2013). "Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage". Wired. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
^ ab"CoreOS – a new approach to Linux-based server systems". itnews2day.com. August 22, 2013. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
^"CoreOS documentation: Using CoreOS". coreos.com. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
^"Building development images: Updating portage-stable ebuilds from Gentoo". coreos.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
^"Distributions based on Gentoo". gentoo.org. March 25, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
^Brian Harrington (July 8, 2014). "CoreOS: Anatomy of a CoreOS update". youtube.com. Rackspace. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
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